Patents by Inventor Hisashi OTANI

Hisashi OTANI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11875059
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system connectable to a host via each of a first bus and a second bus includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller stores first data that is necessary for responding to a management command for acquiring a status of the memory system in a first volatile memory before causing the memory system to transition to a low power mode. The controller causes the memory system to transition to the low power mode by stopping supply of power to each of components of the controller except for a first interface circuit connected to a first bus, a second interface circuit connected to a second bus, and the first volatile memory, and stopping the supply of power to the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Otani
  • Patent number: 11772175
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus includes: a hob cutter; at least one processor; and at least one memory having instructions. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the gear machining apparatus to perform operations including: performing first chamfering on a first axial end of a gear profile by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to a workpiece in radial and axial directions of the workpiece; performing, subsequent to the first chamfering, gear profile machining by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to the workpiece in the axial direction; and performing, subsequent to the gear profile machining, second chamfering on a second axial end of the gear profile by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to the workpiece in the radial and axial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Takemori, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20230089489
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system connectable to a host via each of a first bus and a second bus includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller stores first data that is necessary for responding to a management command for acquiring a status of the memory system in a first volatile memory before causing the memory system to transition to a low power mode. The controller causes the memory system to transition to the low power mode by stopping supply of power to each of components of the controller except for a first interface circuit connected to a first bus, a second interface circuit connected to a second bus, and the first volatile memory, and stopping the supply of power to the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi OTANI
  • Patent number: 11498140
    Abstract: A tooth groove machining method includes: defining a shift angle as a phase correction angle in skiving when shifting a reference point of a predetermined tooth groove of a workpiece in a circumferential direction of the workpiece; machining a first tooth side surface by the skiving with a gear cutting tool, by setting an intersection angle to a predetermined intersection angle, and by setting the phase correction angle to a first phase correction angle; and machining a second tooth side surface by the skiving with the same gear cutting tool as the gear cutting tool that machined the first tooth side surface, by setting the intersection angle to be the same with the predetermined intersection angle, and by setting the phase correction angle to a second phase correction angle different from the first phase correction angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11400556
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus for working tools configured to be used in a machining process performed by a machine tool, the abnormality detection apparatus includes a storage portion which previously stores correlations between features of a plurality of operating portions relation to the machining process performed by the machine tool, and a tool condition of each of a plurality of working tool types, and a tool condition determining portion which determines the tool condition of the working tools based on the correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuntaro Takasu, Yuki Ishigure, Hisashi Otani, Toshihiro Yonezu
  • Patent number: 11383313
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a workpiece holder, a tool holder holding working tools that includes a hob cutter used in a rough machining and a skiving cutter used in a finish machining, a tool magazine, a tool replacing device replacing one of the working tools mounted on the tool holder with the other of working tools housed in the tool magazine, a rough machining controlling section performing the rough machining on the workpiece, a tool measuring device measuring a position of a blade in a rotation direction of the skiving cutter, an angle correcting section correcting a rotation angle of the skiving cutter based on a result measured by the tool measuring device, and placing a tooth space formed in the workpiece and an edge tip of the blade in a position corresponding to each other, and a finish machining controlling section by which workpiece is finish machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Natsuda, Kento Takeuchi, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220009016
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus includes: a hob cutter; at least one processor; and at least one memory having instructions. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the gear machining apparatus to perform operations including: performing first chamfering on a first axial end of a gear profile by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to a workpiece in radial and axial directions of the workpiece; performing, subsequent to the first chamfering, gear profile machining by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to the workpiece in the axial direction; and performing, subsequent to the gear profile machining, second chamfering on a second axial end of the gear profile by relatively moving the hob cutter with respect to the workpiece in the radial and axial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi TAKEMORI, Hisashi OTANI, Hiroyuki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210331261
    Abstract: To provide a gear machining apparatus capable of correcting a tooth trace error without using a special tool when a hob cutter is cantilever-supported. A gear machining apparatus includes a hob cutter machining a tooth profile on a workpiece, a tool spindle device rotatably cantilever-supporting the hob cutter, a workpiece spindle device rotatably supporting the workpiece, a driving device moving the tool spindle device and the workpiece spindle device relatively to each other, a measuring device measuring the value corresponding to a bending amount of the hob cutter or a rotation synchronization shift of the workpiece spindle device with respect to the tool spindle device and a correction processing unit correcting a cutting amount of the hob cutter T or the rotation synchronization shift of the workpiece spindle device with respect to the tool spindle device based on the value measured by the measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kento TAKEUCHI, Hisashi OTANI, Hiroyuki NAKANO, Shuntaro TAKASU, Yoshitaro OHSAKI, Tetsuro FURUHATA, Kazunari OGURA
  • Patent number: 11077508
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus continuously performs cutting work for a first tooth flank and cutting work for a second tooth flank during a single feed operation, and changes a correction angle between the cutting work for the first tooth flank and the cutting work for the second tooth flank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakano, Hisashi Otani, Shuntaro Takasu
  • Patent number: 11059115
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus creates a gear on a workpiece W by moving a gear cutting tool relatively with respect to the workpiece along the direction of the rotation axis of the workpiece W while synchronously rotating the gear cutting tool and the workpiece. One of a workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and a tool rotation speed controlling portion varies the rotation speed of one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool and the other one of the workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and the tool rotation speed controlling portion synchronizes the rotation speed of the other one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool with one of the rotation speed of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi Kanda, Takaaki Hashimoto, Yuji Sasaki, Yoshihiko Yamada, Hisashi Otani, Yoshitaro Ohsaki
  • Patent number: 11033974
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus and a gear machining method are provided. The gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus sets a correction angle to a first angle when cutting work for a second tooth flank is started after cutting work for a first tooth flank is finished, and moves the gear cutter from a first finish position to a second start position while rotating the workpiece and the gear cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakano, Hisashi Otani, Shuntaro Takasu
  • Publication number: 20210053130
    Abstract: A tooth groove machining method includes: defining a shift angle as a phase correction angle in skiving when shifting a reference point of a predetermined tooth groove of a workpiece in a circumferential direction of the workpiece; machining a first tooth side surface by the skiving with a gear cutting tool, by setting an intersection angle to a predetermined intersection angle, and by setting the phase correction angle to a first phase correction angle; and machining a second tooth side surface by the skiving with the same gear cutting tool as the gear cutting tool that machined the first tooth side surface, by setting the intersection angle to be the same with the predetermined intersection angle, and by setting the phase correction angle to a second phase correction angle different from the first phase correction angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20200398398
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus for working tools configured to be used in a machining process performed by a machine tool, the abnormality detection apparatus includes a storage portion which previously stores correlations between features of a plurality of operating portions relation to the machining process performed by the machine tool, and a tool condition of each of a plurality of working tool types, and a tool condition determining portion which determines the tool condition of the working tools based on the correlations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuntaro TAKASU, Yuki ISHIGURE, Hisashi OTANI, Toshihiro YONEZU
  • Publication number: 20200171610
    Abstract: A tool unit includes a rotary tool, a first holder which is connected to a first end portion of the rotary tool in an axial direction of the rotary tool, a second holder connected to a second end portion of the rotary tool in the axial direction of the rotary tool, and a third holder having a first support surface rotatably supports an outer circumferential surface of the first holder at a side of the first end portion of the rotary tool and a second support surface rotatably supports an outer circumferential surface of the second holder at a side of the second end portion of the rotary tool, the third holder being connected to the spindle housing so as not to be relatively rotatable to the spindle housing. According to this configuration, displacement of the rotary tool in the radial direction can be restricted effectively by the third unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi OTANI, Seiji KAKAMI, Hiroyuki NAKANO, Koji TOYAMA, Yuki KONNO
  • Publication number: 20200130120
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a workpiece holder, a tool holder holding working tools that includes a hob cutter used in a rough machining and a skiving cutter used in a finish machining, a tool magazine, a tool replacing device replacing one of the working tools mounted on the tool holder with the other of working tools housed in the tool magazine, a rough machining controlling section performing the rough machining on the workpiece, a tool measuring device measuring a position of a blade in a rotation direction of the skiving cutter, an angle correcting section correcting a rotation angle of the skiving cutter based on a result measured by the tool measuring device, and placing a tooth space formed in the workpiece and an edge tip of the blade in a position corresponding to each other, and a finish machining controlling section by which workpiece is finish machined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki NATSUDA, Kento TAKEUCHI, Hisashi OTANI, Hiroyuki NAKANO
  • Patent number: 10618125
    Abstract: To provide a gear cutting tool capable of supplying a coolant liquid to an optimum position even when cutting edges are reground. The gear cutting tool includes the tool body having a plurality of blades on an outer peripheral surface thereof and a center hole, and a nozzle provided in the center hole of the tool body so that a fixed position in the tool body is adjustable. The nozzle includes a flow channel which allows supplied coolant liquid to flow into the center hole of the tool body, and discharge the coolant liquid toward the plurality of blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Natsuda, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano, Yoshimitsu Okada
  • Publication number: 20200086408
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus continuously performs cutting work for a first tooth flank and cutting work for a second tooth flank during a single feed operation, and changes a correction angle between the cutting work for the first tooth flank and the cutting work for the second tooth flank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKANO, Hisashi OTANI, Shuntaro TAKASU
  • Publication number: 20200086409
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus and a gear machining method are provided. The gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus sets a correction angle to a first angle when cutting work for a second tooth flank is started after cutting work for a first tooth flank is finished, and moves the gear cutter from a first finish position to a second start position while rotating the workpiece and the gear cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKANO, Hisashi OTANI, Shuntaro TAKASU
  • Publication number: 20200047268
    Abstract: A gear machining apparatus creates a gear on a workpiece W by moving a gear cutting tool relatively with respect to the workpiece along the direction of the rotation axis of the workpiece W while synchronously rotating the gear cutting tool and the workpiece. One of a workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and a tool rotation speed controlling portion varies the rotation speed of one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool and the other one of the workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and the tool rotation speed controlling portion synchronizes the rotation speed of the other one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool with one of the rotation speed of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi KANDA, Takaaki HASHIMOTO, Yuji SASAKI, Yoshihiko YAMADA, Hisashi OTANI, Yoshitaro OHSAKI
  • Publication number: 20190217406
    Abstract: A gear machining method includes a first intersection angle setting step of setting a first intersection angle with a rotation axis of a workpiece during machining of a second tooth flank, a first rotational direction setting step of setting a rotational direction of the workpiece and a rotational direction of a machining tool during machining of the second tooth flank to a same rotational direction, and a second rotational direction setting step of setting a rotational direction of the workpiece and a rotational direction of the machining tool during machining of a fourth tooth flank to a same rotational direction that is opposite to the rotational direction during machining of the second tooth flank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lin Zhang, Masaki Ichikawa, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano